some news from the Z-Wave front: A danish company (seluxit.com) produces the ViaSENS Homecontroller. It's a european version (868MHz) usb device. Daniel Lux from Seluxit provides me with a test sample. It should be accessible via /dev/ttyACM0 (cdc-acm module).They also are thinking about some encapsulation library for linux for the z-wave sdk (like the windows zwave.dll) and would appreciate any feedback or feature wishes.totallymaxed: maybe you can lend me a few Z-wave components to test the interface for some days?

some news from the Z-Wave front: A danish company (seluxit.com) produces the ViaSENS Homecontroller. It's a european version (868MHz) usb device. Daniel Lux from Seluxit provides me with a test sample. It should be accessible via /dev/ttyACM0 (cdc-acm module).They also are thinking about some encapsulation library for linux for the z-wave sdk (like the windows zwave.dll) and would appreciate any feedback or feature wishes.totallymaxed: maybe you can lend me a few Z-wave components to test the interface for some days?

best regards,Hari

Hi Hari,

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

It really does not make much sense to loan z-wave hardware as the cost of shipping it to you and back again is more than the value of the units (in most cases).

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

ZCU201 and ZDW232 ordered for my experiments, from http://www.elekhomica.nl/noticed all plug in modules were eu type plugs have to go elsewhere for UK/Ireland 3pin plugin modules, which is a pain as shipping adds up!!

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

Do you have the HomeController yet? If yes have you looked into its usb interface/chipset for driver development etc?

the home controller came today. I can verify that the device is available as /dev/ttyACM0 on LMCE (0704). For now i tricked lmce into using the HomeController by adding the ZWave device manually and assigning the com port (UpdateAvailableSerialports.sh needs a tweak for that to recognize the device file). Further research showed that we probably only have to add the usb device id to the device template in the database. I can engage "learn mode" for device download from a primary controller without errors.

Do you have the HomeController yet? If yes have you looked into its usb interface/chipset for driver development etc?

the home controller came today. I can verify that the device is available as /dev/ttyACM0 on LMCE (0704). For now i tricked lmce into using the HomeController by adding the ZWave device manually and assigning the com port (UpdateAvailableSerialports.sh needs a tweak for that to recognize the device file). Further research showed that we probably only have to add the usb device id to the device template in the database. I can engage "learn mode" for device download from a primary controller without errors.

I also noticed that there is a new unit ZCS201 available, which is direct RS232 (I think) . Does anyone actually own one of these, or did experiments with it?

We have ordered some of those for testing here... will report back once we have them ;-)

Of course, I could not wait on that My ZCS201 should come in tomorrow, I'll check it out and report on the results. Supposedly it really does have a serial connector, so we'll see what happens. A previous thread (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2766.msg13509#msg13509) mentioned the ZCS201, but refers to the USB connector! Hmmm... I am hoping that was a typo!